Thanks for your comments folks. Can I just check two things please:

i) The towbar with single electrics kit ordered from Skoda when they built the car should deactivate the rear parking sensors when I have a light board fitted?

ii) The dealer delivered my car back in August 2010, but I only now have bought a bike rack and so did not notice this issue previously. Does the Sales of Goods Act, or perhaps the Skoda Warranty itself, cover me for faults with my car (even when these are optional extras) after this elapsed time period?

The dealer is way down in Surrey, and I am in Scotland, so I am not sure if Skoda would allow me to have this looked at by my local dealer instead.

Much obliged!

Edited 22 June, 201115 yr by JB.

Thanks for your comments folks. Can I just check two things please:

i) The towbar with single electrics kit ordered from Skoda when they built the car should deactivate the rear parking sensors when I have a light board fitted?

ii) The dealer delivered my car back in August 2010, but I only now have bought a bike rack and so did not notice this issue previously. Does the Sales of Goods Act, or perhaps the Skoda Warranty itself, cover me for faults with my car (even when these are optional extras) after this elapsed time period?

The dealer is way down in Surrey, and I am in Scotland, so I am not sure if Skoda would allow me to have this looked at by my local dealer instead.

Much obliged!

i had my towbar fitted by an independent company with the understanding the dealer would code the car. The car was fitted with the towbar pre wiring and the correct kit was sourced at the dealer. The electrics were coded,but, the reversing sensors still worked. I took the car back to the dealer who checked the car and found the sensors need to be coded as well. This could be your problem. I would try and get the supplying dealer to get the local dealer to fix it

Sinclair

I've got a detachable towbar now (and as said by others it doesn't interfere with the Superb's sensors when fitted), but on my previous 2 cars (Passat estate and Mondeo hatch) I had a fixed flange towbars with the extended Alko towball and neither interfered with the reversing sensors. It was obviously pretty close on the Mondeo, because if the towball cover was slightly unseated, it did go off constantly.

Obviously not a definitive answer, but I'd be reasonably confident that it'd be OK.

Paul

I just got swan neck towbar fitted yesterdaya nd sensors pick it up as soon as i put into reverse. Any way around it or is it case of replace with detatchable?

I just got swan neck towbar fitted yesterdaya nd sensors pick it up as soon as i put into reverse. Any way around it or is it case of replace with detatchable?

Hmmm Annoying that! I have a detachable and is basically permanently fixed out back and my sensors do not pick it up at all. When I tow my trailer I just drop the electric socket thingy and off I go. So not sure what your sensors are picking up? Is your ball higher? Or are the electric bits too high (of permanently fixed to outside)?

I just got swan neck towbar fitted yesterdaya nd sensors pick it up as soon as i put into reverse. Any way around it or is it case of replace with detatchable?

From your profile I read that you have a Superb 2.5 TDI, that's a Superb 1. Most probably the Superb 1 does have the problem that the sensors pick up the tow bar. From my own experience I can confirm that in the S2C there is no problem that the sensors "see" the tow bar.

Edited 4 July, 201213 yr by andrehj